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TechnicallyYes, yes but make a few considerations first. Records, instruments, or data that are purposely deleted by the study team may not be recoverable and if they are, it is a difficult and expensive process. If you delete a record that you actually needed, you will be required to complete an intake survey, meet the Data Brokerage team, receive a statement of work that includes the total cost of the data recovery at a $75 per hour fee, and agree to the SOW before the recovery process even begins. Only test records or , records created in error, or records where data have already been moved to another safe location should be deleted from a REDCap production project. It also is important to understand that if you collect real data in development mode and data are deleted, there is no way to recover that data!

In order to delete a record, you must have the user right to delete records. If you do not contact someone on the study who can give you that right. Once you have the right, go to the Record Status Dashboard , click on the record ID you wish to delete, click Choose Action for Record, Delete Record.

Users can delete records or events from REDCap projects in production status. Entire records can be deleted from the record page or forms within records can be deleted with a record.

To delete records, verify the user has appropriate User Rights permissions to delete records within the User Rights page of their project.

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After obtaining appropriate User Rights, navigate to the record where you want to delete data. From the dropdown to Choose action for record, you can select ‘Delete record (all forms/events)’ to delete the data from all forms for the record.

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